If the hospital closes, patients will have to travel at least 30 minutes to another acute-care facility, the hospital's newest CEOA Frank Avignone said on the GoFundMe page. By Wednesday morning, the donations totaled slightly more than $3,000, barely a dent in the $2 million goal.

In his letter to the FTC, Grassley wrote that if true, these practices undermined efforts by Congress to lower the cost of, and increase access to, healthcare for millions of people across the country.

The move to value-based payment will continue to drive the need for pharmacists, as part of care teams, to provide enhanced care including personal therapy goals and outcomes. Sharing a medication-related plan of care with other care team members is critical to the successful coordination of care for complex patients.

Azar’s waiver, part of his declaration of a public health emergency in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, applies to provisions that generally require covered hospitals to give patients the opportunity to agree or object to sharing information with family members or friends involved in their care.

Various telehealth providers as well as health systems are preparing for Hurricane Harvey by announcing they would provide free medical virtual visits during Hurricane Florence. CMS also announced a slew of actions to help North Carolina and South Carolina respond to the storm as well as providing a disaster preparedness toolkit for state Medicaid agencies

According to the poll results, protecting pre-existing conditions in health insurance outranks lowering the price of prescription drugs and repealing the ACA, voters say. On a party-identification basis, this sentiment is shared across a majority of Democrats, Independents and Republicans.

The transition to managed-care model has not been approved by the Federal government, but the state of North Carolina expects the waiver to be approved. In other news, CMS rules against Medicaid Payment Case in Texas

Manatt Health’s analysis found that 12 states are categorized as “restrictive”. Twenty states were categorized as “progressive”. The study also found that almost all state Medicaid programs provided coverage and reimbursements for live video conferencing

Air-ambulance companies have fewer restrictions due to favourable treatment under federal regulations which is in sharp contrast to their counterparts on the ground. This enables them charge huge amounts for their services

In a case brought by Moda Health, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Thursday that the federal government is not required to make risk corridor payments, dealing a blow to insurers that claim they are owed billions